July 8, 2003
Dear Friends,

The "Help Find Kristen Modafferi" web site has been updated with a Summer 2003 update from the Modafferi family. The text of the update is included in this e-mail but, before we present the update, here's an important bit of news.

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Please ask your friends to watch "The Vanished"
on ABC-TV on Monday, July 21, 2003.
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Kristen Modafferi's disappearance will be featured on a television special called "The Vanished" which will be aired on ABC-TV on
July 21st, 2003. Please check your local listings and let your friends and families know! Thank you.

An now, here is the text of the update to Kristen's web site:
Summer, 2003

We're back from another trip to the San Francisco area, but this trip was a little different. Our goal is always the same...to think of good, meaningful things to do while in the bay area that could lead us in a new direction, or turn up a vital clue that would point out at long last what happened to Kristen...six years ago... when she left her job at the coffee shop in the Crocker Galleria on June 23, 1997.

This trip was different because we asked for a moment of hope, a weekly message offered on the radio by a local Charlotte minister. He knew about Kristen's disappearance and was kind enough to deliver to our family a personal offering of hope and encouragement, and peace and comfort. What happened next was nothing short of amazing.

Over the next few days, we were contacted first by the FBI, then by a TV Producer for the ABC series "Vanished", and next by an investigative reporter doing an in-depth story on missing adults for Reader's Digest. In all these instances there is a renewed focus on Kristen's disappearance, on understanding what was done in the early days after she went missing, and more importantly, what wasn't done that should have been done. The Vanished ABC-TV Special will be televised on July 21st, and the Reader's Digest story is scheduled for publication in December.

All of this unexpected attention strengthens our faith that there is a greater power behind the minister's message. The effects can be measured in terms of stepped up FBI involvement and a great deal more national exposure covering Kristen's case. The objective of the FBI is to find out who knows something significant about what happened to Kristen but has not come forward. The national exposure serves a similar purpose, to reveal investigative areas that may have been glossed over or overlooked completely, allowing the ongoing investigation to "zoom in" on these target areas. We are very pleased that so much new effort is being put forth to break through the impasse we have been struggling with for the last six years.

The final piece of good news involves a man from California who has been deeply affected, as a family man and father, by what has happened to us and to other families faced with a missing loved one. He is making a very generous offer in an attempt to convince those with importantinformation to find the courage to come forward now. He is a good man with a kind heart who feels compelled to try to help. Read more at : http://www.findkristen.com.

Thank you,

--The Modafferi Family (and friends)

Kristen's Website:
http://www.modlink.com/kristen/
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*Important please visit Kristen's Website for there is much more information on Kristen's Website. This post was copied from my e-mail. Thank you, LadyBug